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by actuator 2124 days ago
Interesting points they are making, it would be interesting to see how much of the IPO volume gets sold out in the first week or month to see how much of the price is being driven by just a few shares.

I looked at Zoom's IPO, the trade volume on IPO day was around 26M with closing price of 62. If for simplicity we disregard the same shares being traded(trading strategies, HFT trades). This is about $1.5 B in volume, they raised $0.36 B in IPO. So, the point that the article makes about the value being driven by just a small set of "gamblers" and not the value of the whole/majority of IPO block probably needs to be looked at with data.

Is there any way to determine the big institutional trades on a particular day to see if any of the IPO subscribers ended up selling in the first few days of listing?